Laws Will Not Change American Racism/​enforcement Ensures It…

The sleigh of hand which allows the con­tin­u­a­tion and growth of white suprema­cy in America are so insti­tu­tion­al­ized that leg­is­la­tion can­not remove it.
That is not to say that leg­is­la­tion and vig­i­lance will not reduce inci­dences of bla­tant racism, and increase the con­se­quences of it. There will have to be a com­plete and total uproot­ing of the sys­tem which feeds this can­cer­ous enig­ma, which keeps a seg­ment of the pop­u­la­tion in per­pet­u­al stress.

What do I mean?
Well, let us take the seat-belt law for exam­ple. A good law which saves lives in instances of auto crash­es. Or Cell-phone laws which makes it an offense to use a cell­phone while oper­at­ing an auto­mo­bile.
Seems rea­son­able that those laws would be enforced by police right?
If you have a dis­cus­sion with white peo­ple about this they would tell you “Oh, of course, the laws are there for a pur­pose, peo­ple must learn to obey the laws.“
Sure we know they are sanc­ti­mo­nious and hyp­o­crit­i­cal in their self-right­eous­ness, and they can afford to be, white priv­i­lege gives them that latitude. 

So if you take a clos­er look at the real aspect of it, which is the enforce­ment, you will walk away with a knot in your stom­ach from the anger you devel­op as a result of their hypocrisy.
If enforce­ment is con­cen­trat­ed in high-den­si­ty areas in which peo­ple of col­or, large­ly black peo­ple live, who do you think will be impact­ed by that enforce­ment?
Now, do you under­stand why white peo­ple are so arro­gant when it comes to law enforce­ment?
The fact is that by and large, enforce­ment is done in black neigh­bor­hoods by white police, while white men and women dri­ve around with­out seat­belt on and on their cell phones.
They sit at traf­fic lights tex­ting on their devices caus­ing our time spent at traf­fic lights to be on the increase.
Enforcement of American laws is done around American cities. American cities are heav­i­ly pop­u­lat­ed with Black and brown peo­ple.
So when they talk about mar­i­jua­na arrests the faces you see are going to be black faces.
When you talk about drunk dri­ving, you will see black faces. Not that blacks con­sume more alco­hol or pot than their white coun­ter­parts, in fact, they actu­al­ly con­sume less accord­ing to research after research.
Blacks have sim­ply borne the brunt of enforce­ment of all kinds in America since Reconstruction. These enforce­ment strate­gies are not acci­den­tal they are intentional.

Police pull over or even stop a black man in the streets and imme­di­ate­ly they go to the go-to ques­tion, “Do you have ID on you”?
In most cas­es, they have no author­i­ty to demand Identification from the per­son with whom they are inter­act­ing.
Some states do have laws which make it manda­to­ry to pro­duce Identification on demand to police. Other states, like New York and some oth­ers, make pro­duc­ing Identification to law enforce­ment manda­to­ry, only if one is oper­at­ing a motor vehi­cle.
Again, to the white pop­u­la­tion, this is noth­ing out of the ordi­nary, to them, it’s sim­ple, “if you have noth­ing to hide why not just show ID?
Never mind that the request may have come from law enforce­ment in a state in which they are not enti­tled to see ID on demand.
Or that they would make no such demand of a white male in those states.

In order to under­stand the per­spec­tive of the black expe­ri­ences in these sit­u­a­tions, one has to under­stand the gen­e­sis of polic­ing in America.
According to [www​.snopes​.com] In 1704, the colony of Carolina devel­oped the fledg­ling United States’ first slave patrol. The patrol con­sist­ed of rov­ing bands of armed white cit­i­zens who would stop, ques­tion, and pun­ish slaves caught with­out a per­mit to trav­el. They were civ­il orga­ni­za­tions, con­trolled and main­tained by coun­ty courts. The way the patrols were orga­nized and main­tained pro­vid­ed a lat­er frame­work for pre­ven­tive (rather than reac­tive) com­mu­ni­ty polic­ing, par­tic­u­lar­ly in the South: 
It is in that con­text that African-Americans con­tin­ue to see police today.
It is in the same con­text that police con­tin­ue to oper­ate and treat peo­ple of col­or today as if the slave patrol days are not over.
And so, that begs the ques­tion, “are the days of the slave patrols over in American law enforce­ment?
If so why have American police con­tin­ue to vio­late the rights of black and brown cit­i­zens with impuni­ty?
If the days of slave patrols are over why do munic­i­pal­i­ties still con­tin­ue to pass ordi­nances which empow­er police to fur­ther vio­late the rights of black cit­i­zens, know­ing full well that white cit­i­zens are not going to be sub­ject to the same enforce­ment tech­niques as blacks are?
Nevertheless, it gives white peo­ple the abil­i­ty to pompous­ly posit as if they are law-abid­ing cit­i­zens, when in fact they are large­ly exempt from many enforce­ment to which blacks are subjected. 

In the New York city in which my busi­ness-place is sit­u­at­ed, I am smack dab on the bor­der between the town in which I live and the city in which I do busi­ness.
The city cops are pret­ty laid back and get along with the cit­i­zens who are large­ly Black and Mexicans despite some com­plaints here and there.
On the oth­er hand, the town cops which are almost 100% white pret­ty much [uses the main Artery which runs through parts of the town into the heart of the city as birds view a feed­ing tree]..
Black and Brown’s peo­ple are tar­get­ed and pulled over by town cops as they tra­verse the lit­tle strip of road­way through the town into the city.
The Town’s traf­fic court is a ver­i­ta­ble mon­ey pit, filled with large­ly black peo­ple, even though the Town is large­ly white.
That kind of dis­pro­por­tion­ate and tar­get­ed enforce­ment lit­er­al­ly holds up and rob black cit­i­zens and give the pro­ceeds to white cops in the form of lucra­tive salaries and ben­e­fits.
White Americans are silent to these insti­tu­tion­al­ized trav­es­ties because it not only excludes them it empow­ers and enrich­es them.
They make the laws and even though you may think the laws are there for every­one if you aren’t pay­ing atten­tion, it real­ly isn’t about the laws them­selves.
It is always about the dis­pro­por­tion­ate enforce­ment and over-polic­ing of black cit­i­zens than it is about the laws them­selves.
That has been the way America does busi­ness from its incep­tion that is how it does busi­ness today.